Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
517
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Hach ch'i
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
مهربانی کر
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Poguli
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rambani
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.42 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
tibétain
kashmiri
German Name
Tibetisch
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
c. 650
12th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kashmiri
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kas
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kas
ISO 639 3
bod
kas
ISO 639 6
bod
kas
Glottocode
tibe1272
kash1277
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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